More than 40% of carbon pollution comes from power plants. Yet incredibly, there are currently no limits on greenhouse gas emissions from these plants. But now, the EPA has proposed first-ever standards for carbon pollution from the nation’s existing power plants. This proposal will limit emissions from power plants by 30% by 2030, compared with 2005 levels.

Make your voice heard before the comment period ends, and tell the EPA to move forward with strong carbon standards for power plants.

The United States is considering a proposal to combat climate change that would require countries to offer plans for curtailing greenhouse gas emissions on a certain schedule but would leave it to individual nations to determine how deep their cuts would be, said Todd Stern, the nation’s chief climate negotiator.

Climate Change is affecting our communities now. Hear what is happening and what you can do.

Next presentation on the effects of climate change in Southern California will be held on January 8th 2015. The speaker Dr. Jere H. Lipps is the Director of the John D.Cooper Archaeological and Paleontonlogical Center. He is involved in the paleoceanographic conditions impacting marine mammal diversity through time, the preservation of marine mammal assemblages and the history and processes of climate change in Orange County.